FL medical staff, physicians win key bylaws lawsuit
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, April 6, 2006
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A county circuit court has ruled that a state law providing hospital administrators greater control over hospital bylaws unconstitutional. The judgment, rendered on March 24, ended an ongoing conflict between the medical staff and the board of trustees at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center of St. Lucie County, FL.
The law, enacted in 2003 and lobbied for by the hospital, provided the hospital authority to alter medical staff bylaws.
In her decision, Leon County Circuit Judge Janet Ferris wrote that the argument for the hospital's board holding authority over the bylaws "cannot support the constitutionality of a law that rewrites the medical staff bylaws for the sole purpose of taking away powers that the medical staff currently possesses."
Sources: The American Medical Association (http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/16167.html), the Palm Beach Post (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/treasurecoast/content/local_news/epaper/2006/04/02/m1c_sllawnwood_0402.html.) Look for additional coverage of this decision and more in the May edition of Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider.
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